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Name
Catherine Hawkins
Title
Director
Bio
Catherine Hawkins is a commercial specialist with over 20 years of experience in the sales and sponsorship sector. As founder of Think!Sponsorship she has developed & created a number of tools for the sponsorship industry. These include the largest one-day sponsorship conference in the UK (Think!Sponsorship), research tool Find!Sponsorship, the Talk!Sponsorship networking series (including the Women in Sponsorship events) and the acclaimed Sell!Your Sponsorship workshop training events which she delivers herself.
Catherine specialises in working with sponsorship-seekers to identify assets and opportunities with the goal of converting these into sustainable commercial programmes and counts the Forestry Commission, English Heritage, EFL, Royal College of Nursing and London Zoo amongst a broad-range of organisations with whom she has recently worked.
Catherine is a Non Executive Director on the National Parks Partnerships (NPP) board which was specifically created to represent the commercial interests of all 15 National Parks in the UK for the first time in their history. In this capacity she helps to identify revenue-generating opportunities for the parks across sponsorship, licensing, CSR and merchandising. She is also a Trustee of the Essex Wildlife Trust.
Catherine created the ESA Sponsorship Sales Certificate which accredits sponsorship practitioners in best-practice sales techniques- she delivers this course and assesses candidates on an ongoing basis. She is a judge on The Barrie Gill Award for Most Promising Young Sponsorship Executive and a regular contributor/moderator at conferences and industry events across Europe.
Catherine specialises in working with sponsorship-seekers to identify assets and opportunities with the goal of converting these into sustainable commercial programmes and counts the Forestry Commission, English Heritage, EFL, Royal College of Nursing and London Zoo amongst a broad-range of organisations with whom she has recently worked.
Catherine is a Non Executive Director on the National Parks Partnerships (NPP) board which was specifically created to represent the commercial interests of all 15 National Parks in the UK for the first time in their history. In this capacity she helps to identify revenue-generating opportunities for the parks across sponsorship, licensing, CSR and merchandising. She is also a Trustee of the Essex Wildlife Trust.
Catherine created the ESA Sponsorship Sales Certificate which accredits sponsorship practitioners in best-practice sales techniques- she delivers this course and assesses candidates on an ongoing basis. She is a judge on The Barrie Gill Award for Most Promising Young Sponsorship Executive and a regular contributor/moderator at conferences and industry events across Europe.
